Hurricane Katrina

Joshua Reaves
From Refusal to Resilience: How Hurricane Katrina Birthed A Global Health Vanguard
10 Sep 2025
The US government left Black residents to die after Hurricane Katrina, refusing Cuba's offer of emergency doctors. This racist neglect exposed a truth that the US state would rather sacrifice its own…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Remember Katrina
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: This is Criminal, Malik Rahim, New Orleans, September 1st, 2005
27 Aug 2025
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”
Jon Jeter
From Jim Crow to Katrina to Gentrification, Tracing the Rise and Fall of New Orleans Working Class
27 Aug 2025
A forgotten history of cross-racial labor solidarity in 1890s New Orleans offered a glimpse of a potential future. Its deliberate destruction set the stage for the city's modern transformation into a…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Synergy of the Sacrificed: Katrina and the Praxis of Imperial Domination
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years after Katrina, the disaster stands not as an anomaly but as a blueprint. Its aftermath reveals a template for imperial domination, where "natural" disasters become pretexts for…
Jaribu Hill
Solidarity, not Charity—End Jim Crow Recovery—Restore All Communities
27 Aug 2025
Jaribu Hill, Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, recounts the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the efforts to organize on behalf of the people.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Katrina: The Rich Folks' Opportunity and Our Dismal Failure
27 Aug 2025
"Racism showed its ass in the days after August 29, 2005."
Adam Mahoney
Natural Disasters Are Driving a School Crisis. Black Children Are Hit the Hardest
02 Apr 2025
Black students are losing classrooms, homes, and support systems after climate events.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: “The People Who Were Left to Die:” Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Katrina, ACLU, 2006
28 Aug 2024
Remembering the terrible plight of the incarcerated during Hurricane Katrina.
Maya RIchard-Craven
The Hidden Toll of Hurricane Katrina on the Mental Health of Black Survivors
29 Nov 2023
Survivors open up about struggles with lingering post-traumatic stress disorder 18 years after the storm